We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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